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Before I opened my eyes, God gave me a music box
I ripped out the twirling, plastic ballerina
"Perfection" in a dress, Peptol Bismol colored pink
Took her out, the lily white lie, before I cared
What someone else'd think
Ten days from being eighteen
And now I'm ...

I was given the colored blocks
Beautifully scripted
With rainbow letters
The eyes, whys, and L's
Stacked in their glory near the O's and V's, just on V
But oh, it occurs to me
A haunting reality
That without you
I'm just a silly little girl
With a pile of blocks, and a n...

Someone spoke of a New Year's kiss
I turned despite myself to see
The exchange of candy
And hear my classmates laugh
(Milton Hershey makes us all comedic geniuses.)
I laughed anyway, forcing small talk
“Oh, I thought y'all meant something else”
The girl with the almond eyes shakes her h...

This month is Nub Awareness Month. In case you’re wondering which month specifically – if it has days, weeks, and quacks like a month, then it is truly Nub Awareness Month. Education is crucial, as nubs are all around us in our society today.They are our friends, our siblings, parents, teachers...

Oh, child
Write about
The thing in life
Your sweet, young life
That you would do over
If only, child, you had the chance
The paper speaks
The words promise
Money
Scholarships
A future
The assignment threatens
What do you want me to say?
I almost wish I never fell in love
With brown ey...

The inspiration behind making what I truly believe is the best decision for my life came to me while I was staring at my feet. Yes, every one of my twenty little piggies sparked a size nine inner revolution. Suspended happily on a green swing while sipping apple juice as the sunshine soaked my skin ...

I love you, so I’m just gonna say it. It should be easy, right? People do it every second of every day all over the world. I suck at math, but it seems like that’s a lot of publicity for three little words. There are movies centered around the idea. Songs written for the simple purpose of saying...

I blame Stephen for a lot of things in these past five or so years of my life.
A junior in highschool the first day I met him, I never expected our paths to cross in any significant way – until the night he reached out to me in one of my darkest moments. A seventh grader reeling from an infatua...

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